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Chapter 674: Zheng Tu
Being backward and ignorant does not mean being stupid.

The two small Francophones and musketeers on the northern wall of the village were suppressed by the tiger squatting guns, which greatly reduced the firepower. The Spaniards in the wooden village had to allocate manpower to guard against the Ming army from the west coast, and they were unable to suppress the huge number of original troops. resident.

Even if they did not receive Magui's signal, they would still seize this opportunity to attack Muzhai.

Axes and spears built several climbing ladders on the wall of the village. When the aborigines climbed into the wooden village, in less than a moment, the aborigines opened the gate of the village and kept carrying all the things they could use. The village was burned.

They cheered and danced, and built a small mound structure next to the wooden village with mounds of earth, which looked like an altar.

Ma Gui did not try to enter the wooden village, and his subordinates did not exert any strength in this battle, they just fired a few shots into the wooden village when the Fran cannon was on the north wall of the wooden village.

And he is also very clear that the damage caused by the tiger crouching gun's scattered particles is limited.

He doesn't care about the spoils of the Spaniards, as long as the camp belonging to the Spaniards disappears from this land, his purpose will be achieved.

Compared with the spoils of war, Ma Gui cares more about how these aborigines think of the Ming army.

Not long after, some aborigines slowly surrounded them. The leader was a man wearing a large eagle feather crown, with black and red tattoos on his face, and two rows of long beef bones on his chest. Ten steps away, he handed over the bow and arrow to his subordinates, and walked towards Ma Gui and the others with proud strides.

Behind him, someone was holding a draped blanket with a few gold nuggets the size of pebbles wrapped around it.

Under the gesture of the leader, the aboriginal soldiers presented Ma Gui with blankets painted with lifelike fish and birds.

The leader said a few words, seeing that Ma Gui didn't understand, he sighed helplessly, and finally raised his hand to stroke his chest, repeating the same syllables slowly and earnestly.

Ma Gui turned to Ma Jin and said: "Did he say the name, what is it, Zheng, Zheng rabbit?"

Ma Jin also repeated this syllable several times, and finally said firmly: "Zheng Tu! Town Guanxi!"

This makes Ma Gui so funny, Zheng Tu, isn't he the town of Guanxi in the Water Margin.

Although this name is not very auspicious when meeting Ruda, Ma Gui has no habit of being a good teacher, and he is unwilling to change his name.

"Okay, Zheng Tu, I'm Ma Gui." He guessed that he told Zhen Guanxi that he was a first-class official worshiping the imperial court, but he didn't understand, so he simply omitted the introduction process, pointing at the Huangming flag behind him and said: "Ming , we are Ming, yes, the Ming army."

The two chatted with each other for a long time, and Ma Gui didn't know if Zhen Guanxi had figured out what his name was, anyway, learning how to speak from each other was quite interesting.

Not only did the few pieces of gold and magui be accepted as they were ordered, but he also accepted the large linen woven blanket, but he regarded it as a transaction. The exchange has been done with ease.

A pistol, a small bag of gunpowder, and dozens of lead pellets were handed over to Zhenguanxi under Ma Gui's instruction. In addition, he also asked several bird guns to demonstrate how to use firearms to Zheng Tu.

As for the two sets of Ming army-style cloth armor and a flag with Ming characters, they were Ma Gui's personal gifts.

Although Ma Zongbing did have a lot of armaments, and his subordinates left a huge amount of weapons and armor after a large number of non-combat attrition, but none of those things were carried with the ship, so they couldn't give any good things, but they had enough ingenuity.

A big tree was felled by the Jurchen, and then split into several sections, and each section was split in the center to take out the gun bore and ammunition hole as thick as an arm. After the boat rope was tied, it became a few simple wooden cannons.

He poured a catty of gunpowder, picked up a stone of similar size, plugged in the gunpowder wire and blasted towards the tree trunk twenty steps away.

Either because the pine wood is soft or because there is not much charge, the wooden cannon is like a big blunderbuss. Not only did it not fall apart, but it also smashed deep holes in the trunk not far away.

When Magui's subordinates raised several wooden cannons, a barrel of gunpowder, and a wooden spoon containing nearly a catty of medicine and put them in front of Zheng Tu, the aboriginal chief of the town of Guanxi was already nicknamed in the hearts of the generals of the Ming army. His complexion became very strange.

Everyone will feel this way, right?It's like opening the gift bag of the Ming Dynasty and giving a few pieces of gold as a reward for hiring them to bombard the Spaniards with powerful weapons. In the end, they were given guns, armors, and finally a few cannons.

All this was too novel to Zheng Tu.

'Why does this tribe that claims to be Ming look like a fool? '

This is the first time Zheng Tu led a tribal expedition and defeated an intruder who built a house in his territory. As a result, another intruder came now, but these guys don't look like an invasion. What are they going to do?
Watching Ma Gui keep pointing to the south and saying something he didn't understand, Zheng Tu first pointed to the snow-capped mountains in the distance to the north, then pointed to the high mountains at the end of Fang Fang's vision, and then pointed to himself, repeating again and again: "Zheng Tu Butcher."

Ma Gui probably understood, and said to the left and right: "From this mountain to that mountain is their territory. It seems that this battle was fought to regain the lost ground, and they have no intention of continuing south."

There are not enough horses, and there are no oxen and donkeys to carry them. Their range of action is so large. It seems that they will have to look far away to continue to capture the land occupied by the Spaniards in the south.

Ma Gui clasped his fists and cupped his hands, leaving behind two clever men to follow Zheng Tu. He pointed to his subordinates and then pointed to the sea in the northwest, and said, "Ma Gui."

Zheng Tu followed suit, and also sent two young men to follow Ma Gui, pointing to the land under his feet, and said, "Zheng Tu!"

Just when Magui was about to say goodbye and leave, the aborigines who accepted the captives suddenly broke out in commotion.

Ma Gui has always been curious about Zheng Tu's tribe rescuing these compatriots who were reduced to slavery. Some people are obviously from Zheng Tu's tribe, and they rejoined the tribe at the beginning of the end of the battle.

But more people looked the same, but they were not from the Zhengtu tribe. Many of them wanted to run but couldn't. After being caught, they were tied up and led again.

The commotion originated from a slave wearing a deer-painted blanket. It was a man who looked over forty years old, but the children who followed him were only in their teens. Maybe it was because the labor looked older and they were actually only in their 30s. When his rug was torn away by Zheng Tu's subordinates, people found a large pustular rash on his body.

On the forehead, face, arms, abdomen, and back, there are impetigo rashes everywhere under the brown-yellow skin, and some impetigo rashes have been ruptured due to the rough action of tearing off the blanket. Go, but the aborigines ran away screaming like they were avoiding the plague.

This is the plague.

Ma Gui can no longer be familiar with it. This is a symptom of smallpox, and it is already a very severe smallpox. He has not died to this extent. If this person is lucky enough, he may survive in the future.

In Zheng Tu's eyes, Ma Gui saw fear.

He realized that this was an opportunity to show strength to the aborigines, and walked over there. At this moment, he was blocked by Zheng Tu's strong arm. Even though he couldn't understand the words, he could still see the compassion and determination in Zheng Tu's eyes.

Ma Gui smiled, he shook his head, and said in a firm tone: "You don't know what we have done to defeat the pox, it can't hurt us."

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)